Tore T. Petersen is Professor of International and American Diplomatic History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the author of The Middle East between the Great Powers: Anglo-American Conflict and Cooperation, 19527, The Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 19611969, and Richard Nixon, Great Britain and the Anglo-American Alignment in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. His most recent publication is Anglo-American Policy toward the Persian Gulf, 1978-1985.

• John F. Kennedy Confronts the Middle East: A New Beginning?; Kennedy, Nasser, Macmillan and the War in Yemen, 1962-1963; The Flickering Embers of Empire: Douglas-Home, Lyndon Johnson and the Middle East; Trying to Hold the Line: Lyndon Johnson and the British Role East of Suez; Leaving Aden, October 1964 to November 1967; Doctrinaire Socialists as Feudal Overlords: Saudi Arabia, 1964-1967; The Withdrawal From the Persian Gulf; The End of the Anglo-American Middle East?

In this well-written book, Petersen, a noted expert in the region, explains and analyzes the delicate Anglo-American relations and their common interest in the Middle East between 1961 and 1969. Highly recommended. -- Choice